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An alief is a belief-like attitude, behavior, or expectation that can coexist with a contradictory belief. For example, the fear felt when a monster jumps out of the darkness in a scary movie is based on the alief that the monster is about to attack you, even though you believe that it cannot.

Related tags: Belief, Emotion, 

Blog posts

  • The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist
  • Living Luminously

See also

  • Hollywood rationality
  • Corrupted hardware
  • Separate magisteria
  • Living Luminously (sequence)
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